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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Swap ’Em If You Got ’Em
Hall (right): An online market for military personnel. Blake Hall (MBA ’10) grew up in a military family, became an Army Ranger, and was a platoon leader in Iraq for fifteen months. A conversation with a... View Details
Harvey S. Firestone, Jr.
Firestone inaugurated the company’s Liberian manufacturing operations and developed and expanded the company’s auto supply and service stores. Firestone manufactured over 50% of all mobile anti-aircraft gun units during World War II and... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 23 Jul 2013
- News
Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
boarding school seemed too limiting if he wanted to make a genuine impact. Turning his sights to improving public education, he met with then-HBS Senior Lecturer Stacey Childress (MBA 2000). She presented him with a challenge. Why, she asked, does the US View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Giving Together
a fellowship fund to support HBS students with a military service background—and so did 11 of his classmates. Haley, a former US Navy SEAL and currently a managing director at Ziff Brothers Investments, led... View Details
Edward V. Rickenbacker
Prior to purchasing Eastern in 1938, Rickenbacker had successful careers in automobile racing and the auto industry at large, in addition to his distinguished service in the United States military in World... View Details
Keywords: Transportation
Bernard M. Baruch
Though Baruch was a very successful financier, he is best known for his four decades of service as an advisor to US Presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Franklin Roosevelt. He helped to finance some of the leading industrial firms of his... View Details
Keywords: Finance
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Community | MBA
Community At Harvard Business School (HBS), breakthrough moments can happen any time: in a late-night discussion among peers, during a journey along India's east coast, in service to a neighborhood nonprofit, or simply while relaxing in a... View Details
- Web
Expansion of the Case Method | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
returning military service members, the School’s first executive education program. In explaining the history of the program, HBS noted, “What was developed during a period of national crisis has become, in... View Details
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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator D uring the 1930s, in addition to his classes at HBS, Doriot taught at the US Army Industrial College where he trained officers in the preparation of adequate military supplies and equipment. At the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business
glasnost. The experience was mind-blowing and heart-opening.” After fulfilling a two-year military service requirement in Singapore, Lim studied international relations as an undergraduate at Princeton... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
Founder and Chairman, FiBA Group Download Özyeğin profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1945 Born, Izmir, Turkey 1966 Elected student body president at Oregon State 1972 Returns to Turkey for military View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
and philanthropy and executive director of the Mattel Children's Foundation, based in El Segundo, California.) “Business can be the greatest force for good on this planet.” At ExecWB, Goodwin and his team recruit for-profit partners to reach into developing countries... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 08 Dec 2017
- News
Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits
After a tumultuous year in US politics, more than a dozen recent alumni have thrown their hats into the ring to launch careers in public service. “More and more people are feeling they need to step up and that they can, because they have the right skills to solve the... View Details
Keywords: politics
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
J. Ronald Fox (MBA '59)
In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of a Distinguished View Details
- Profile
Juliane Schwetz
military service and is currently working as research staff at MIT. “With the section and club events, the campus is not just a nice place for me to thrive, but a welcoming place where my husband is... View Details
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
contracts.” In fixed-price contracts, the supplier provides a product or service to the government at a fixed price. In cost-plus contracts, the supplier bills the government based on reported production costs and profit margin, making it... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit
This article is a repost from the Social Enterprise Initiative blog. Prior to Harvard Business School, I spent eight years on active duty military service as an Aviation officer and helicopter pilot in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
RallyPoint a Winner
In military parlance, a rally point is where soldiers scattered on a mission are to meet up. So when Iraq veterans Yinon Weiss (MBA 2011) and Aaron Kletzing (HBS 2013) launched a start-up to help veterans network and land civilian jobs,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
casualties," he said, would be the likely result. Counterterrorism and international affairs have been central elements of Bremer's career. Entering the diplomatic service immediately after graduating from HBS, he embarked on several... View Details
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Andrew Kletzing
the group and in South Korea in general made me determined to find a career that gives me similar opportunities for leadership development." Encouraged by an open environment "HBS," says Andrew, "is a natural fit for View Details